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WEBBER S. SEAVEY 
Manager. El^e Shtpl Irtprttlip ^ttbite (Hampmy 

Seattle, Wadtington 
April, 1910 



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1861 — Enlisted at Omaha, Nebraska Territory, 
November 12. 

1862 — Mustered at Benton Barracics: St. Louis, 
Mo., and assigned to Company H, Curtis 
Horse, Jan. 9. Promoted to Commissary Ser- 
geant Feb. 1; Q. M. Sergeant May ], and First 
Sergeant Sept. 1. Engaged in both battles at 
Fort Donelson and at Clarksville, Tenn., Hop- 
kinsville, Ky., and a number of skirmishes, 
scouting in Kentucky and West Tennessee. 

1863 — Engaged in battles at Guy's Gap, June 25; 
Sugar Creek Oct. 8; and a number of hard skir- 
mishes and fights with the forces under Con- 
federate Generals Wheeler and Roddy. 

1864 — Re-enlisted Company H, Fifth Iowa Vet- 
eran Volunteer Cavalry. Engaged in all the 
hard fought battles on the Rosseau Raid, July 
4-18, and the McCook raid July 26-31, where 
we lost seventy per cent, of the regiment. 

Slightly wounded and taken prisoner at the 
battle of Flint River, Ga., Aug 31. Escaped at 
Griffin Sept. 1st; recaptured Sept 9; escaped 
from. Andersonville prison Sept 27; recaptured 
and escaped from Macon prison, and reported 
to General Sherman at East Point, Ga..Oct. 2. 

Engaged in battle at Nashville Dec. 15-16, 
and spent Christmas week in the mud and rain 
chasing Hood's army across the Tennessee 
river. Promoted and commissioned Captain of 
Co. H, 5th Iowa Cavalry Dec. 20, and assigned 
to duty as such Dec. 26. 

1865 — On the Wilson raid, which left Chickasaw 
Landing, Ala., March 22, and arrived at Ma- 
con, Ga., April 24. 

During this raid we were engaged in many 
skirmishes, and the battles of Elyton, Monte- 
vallo, Ebenezer Church, Selnja and Montgom- 
ery, Alabama, and ColutntjuJ; and Macon, Ga. 
Mustered out of service, ,aJ*Nashville, Tenn., 
August 11. 




A ^0Utt?ntr nf Aff^rttott 
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of Dear Old Company H. 5th Iowa Cavalry. 

for the Companions of the Washington 

Commandry of 

El}t Sjogal ICrgion 

Comrades of Grant and Custer Posts, G. A. R. 

of Omaha, Nebraska; Julius White Post, 

G. A. R., of Chicago, Illinois, and 

Stephens Post, G. A. R., of 

Seattle, Washington, also 




POLICE 

For the Members of the Police Department 

of Omaha, Nebraska, and Members of 

the International Association 

of Chiefs of Police; and 



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My Brother Officers and Associates of the 
Thiel Detective Service Company. 

Seattle. Wn., April 2nd. 1910. 



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WEBBER S. SEAVEY 

Captain, Company H. 5th Iowa Cavalry- 
July. 1865 



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